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Ever since Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl became a thing, the label “chick noir” has attached itself to all sorts of novels that are domestic of setting, dark of theme, and where paranoia creeps in at the edges (and an unreliable narrator often to top it off). Reviewers have enthused over “toxic marriage thrillers” or “tales of intimate betrayal or mistrust”. Usually, “chick noir” novels are written by women; and the “new” genre, which arguably goes back to Du Maurier and the Brontës, has a flavour of a witch trial about it.